Tupinambis cuzcoensis MURPHY, JOWERS, LEHTINEN, CHARLES, COLLI, PERES JR, HENDRY & PYRON, 2016
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Tupinambis cuzcoensis
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| Higher Taxa | Teiidae, Tupinambinae, Gymnophthalmoidea, Sauria, Squamata (lizards) |
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| Common Names | E: Cusco Tegu Lizard Portuguese: Teiú, Teju |
| Synonym | Tupinambis cuzcoensis MURPHY, JOWERS, LEHTINEN, CHARLES, COLLI, PERES JR, HENDRY & PYRON 2016: 19 |
| Distribution | Peru (Cusco), Ecuador, Brazil (westward into the Amazon Basin as far as Humaita, Amazonas, Mato Grosso) Type locality: Quincemil, Cusco, Peru (~ -13.250–70.735) at 780 m elevation |
| Reproduction | oviparous. Duellman 2005 reports a clutch size of five from a 274 mm SVL female (cited by Murphy et al. 2016, without saying which name Duellman used). |
| Types | Holotype FMNH 168228, a male collected by L.E. Pena in August, 1962. |
| Diagnosis | Diagnosis: (1) Five or six supraoculars, the second is the longest and the largest in area, (2) last supraocular contacts one or two ciliaries and is exceptionally small; (3) the ventral side of the head is usually uniform white, yellow or olive green to gray; (4) largest prefemorals slightly imbricate, tend to be taller than long, and are hexagonal; (5) two to four enlarged supratem- poral scales are bordered by two or three rows ventral rows of smaller scales; (6) three to five occipitals contact the interparietal; (7) rostral visible from above; (8) dorsum has well defined dorsolateral and dorsoventral rows of spots (white in preserved specimens, yellow in life) that may fuse to form a partial stripe; (9) the anterior corner of the orbit is usually over upper labial three or the seam of upper labials three and four. This species corresponds to clade 1 in the molecular analysis. |
| Comment | Distribution: see map in Murphy et al. 2016: 12 (Fig. 7), Silva et al. 2018 (Fig. 10). Diet: Duellman 2005 found six arthropods in one stomach (cricket, spiders, beetles, an ant and an orthopteran) (cited by Murphy et al. 2016, without saying which name Duellman used). |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
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